Development of a context model to prioritize drug safety alerts in CPOE systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) can reduce the number of medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) in healthcare institutions. Unfortunately, they tend to produce a large number of partly irrelevant alerts, in turn leading to alert overload and causing alert fatigue. The objective of this work is to identify factors that can be used to prioritize and present alerts depending on the 'context' of a clinical situation.

Methods

We used a combination of literature searches and expert interviews to identify and validate the possible context factors. The internal validation of the context factors was performed by calculating the inter-rater agreement of two researcher's classification of 33 relevant articles.

Results

We developed a context

SUBMITTER: Riedmann D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3127742 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature